costrel

English

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English costrel, from Old French costerel, modification of costeret. Compare Medieval Latin costrellum (“a liquid measure”), costrellus (“a wine cup”) and Welsh costrel.

Noun

costrel (plural costrels)

(archaic) A bottle of earthenware, leather, or wood, having ears by which it was suspended at the side.
- 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], OCLC 911789798, page 21:
  A youth, that following with a costrel bore / The means of goodly welcome, flesh and wine.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for costrel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

Colters, Cotlers, colters, corslet, croslet, lectors

Middle English

Alternative forms

costerell, costrelle, costril, costrille

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French costerel, modification of costeret.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kɔstˈrɛːl/, /kɔstˈrɛl/, /ˈkɔstrɛl/

Noun

costrel

Any small container or means of storage for liquids; a costrel.
Synonym: costret

Descendants

English: costrel
→ Middle Welsh: costrel
- Welsh: costrel

References

“costrel, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Welsh

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Welsh costrel, from Middle English costrel, costrelle, from Old French costerel, modification of costeret.

Noun

costrel f (plural costrelau or costreli)

flagon, bottle, costrel
skin bottle
keg
measure of two quarts

Synonyms

potel

Derived terms

costrelaid f (“bottleful, flagonful”)
costrelan f (“phial, ampulla, flask”)
costrelau'r nefoedd f pl (“the clouds”, literally “the bottles of heaven”)
costrel bridd f (“jug, stone bottle”)
costrelfarch m (“bottle-rack”)
costrel gron f (“borachio”)
costreliad m (“bottling”)
costrelig f (“small costrel, phial, flask”)
costrelu (“to bottle, preserve, treasure”)
costrel win f (“wine bottle”)
costrelwr m, costrelydd m (“one who carries wine or water in bottles; bottle-maker or seller”)
costrel wydr f (“glass bottle”)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
costrel	gostrel	nghostrel	chostrel
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “costrel”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

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